| DESCRIPTION |
This file holds sets of rules that define a user's authorization to access
rule whose 'target' attributes match the record will be applied; those
that do not match are simply skipped. Matching rules may have additional
conditions that are evaluated, to determine a result of Permit or Deny.
Each policy can have a result function that determines when evaluation is
satisfied (for example, as soon as a rule returns Permit).
data stored in VistA. It supports an attribute-based utility that VistA
applications can use to permit or deny access to an individual record in a
file. Rules can be combined as needed to create simple or very complex
policies; policies can themselves be organized into policy sets.
A policy or set can be tied to an action on a particular VistA file in the
Application Action file #1.61; member policies are then evaluated in
sequence, drilling down the Member hierarchy to each rule. Every policy or
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